A n onprofit youth group may reserve a designated group camping area for up to fourteen consecutive nights .

A person may reserve an available campsite at any state park, recreation area, or lakeside use area for up to fourteen consecutive nights. After the person has occupied the campsite for fourteen consecutive nights, the person shall remove the person's camper unit from the state park, recreational area, or lake side use area, by check-out time the next day, for at least one night, before reserving that site, or another site, at that location.

Camping fees set in subdivisions 41:03:04:03(1) to (7), inclusive, must be paid for the entire duration of a camper's anticipated stay at the time the reservation is made. A person who either cancels a reservation for a campsite through the park reservation center or who cancels a reservation for a campsite, within seven days of or after arrival at the park, shall pay one-half of one night's camping fee for each campsite reserved. A person who cancels a reservation for a camping cabin, a modern cabin, a lodge, a suite, a rent-a-camper, or a campsite at French Creek Horse Camp in Custer State Park, through the park reservation center, within thirty days of or after arrival at the park, shall pay a cancellation fee of one-half of one night's rental or camping fee. The department shall refund all other fees for unused days of camping or unused lodging fees, except nonrefundable reservation fees.

The cost of a reservation is six dollars for a reservation made through the park reservation center. A person who is not a resident of this state shall pay a reservation fee of ten dollars for a reservation made online and sixteen dollars for a reservation made through the park reservation center. The reservation fee is nonrefundable and is payable in advance.

Source: 6 SDR 96, effective April 1, 1980; 10 SDR 76, 10 SDR 102, effective July 1, 1984; 10 SDR 120, effective July 1, 1984; 12 SDR 186, effective May 28, 1986; 13 SDR 192, effective June 22, 1987; 14 SDR 114, effective March 9, 1988; 15 SDR 139, effective March 20, 1989; 16 SDR 135, effective February 18, 1990; 17 SDR 78, effective December 10, 1990; 19 SDR 82, effective December 7, 1992; 21 SDR 102, effective December 8, 1994; 21 SDR 148, effective March 6, 1995; 22 SDR 82, effective December 10, 1995; 23 SDR 87, effective December 3, 1996; 25 SDR 108, effective February 28, 1999; 28 SDR 150, effective May 7, 2002; 32 SDR 109, effective December 27, 2005; 35 SDR 184, effective February 2, 2009; 42 SDR 97, effective January 5, 2016 ; 43 SDR 31, effective September 14, 2016 ; 46 SDR 74, effective December 2, 2019 ; 48 SDR 115, effective May 24, 2022; 51 SDR 53, effective November 11, 2024 .

General Authority: SDCL 41-17-1.1 (1)(7).

Law Implemented: SDCL 41-2-24 , 41-17-1.1 (7).

Prior versions effective: 2022-05-24, 2019-12-02, 2016-09-14, 2016-01-05, 2009-02-02.